Sen. McCain said today that the Russian hacking of email accounts was an act of war. I'm not overly informed on the definition of espionage as an act of war or the acts of misinformation (rather, misappropriation of information), but the comments by McCain have the appearance of being true and I trust his POV. All that being said, if we choose to retaliate against the Russians then what about the Chinese? Also, do we really feel we can prevail in a cyber WW3 as we are currently staffed/configured?
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President Obama has received a much-anticipated classified report on alleged Russian and other foreign meddling in American elections, heightening interest in what evidence the file contains as Republicans spar over the cyberattack claims – and wait for their chance to see the findings themselves.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and other top intelligence officials visited the White House Thursday afternoon, to brief the president on the materials.
President-elect Donald Trump is to be briefed on the report on Friday.
(more at: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017...on-claims.html)
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